New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-31
HUMIDITY IN ABUNDANCE.
JULYs REMARKABLE WEATHER RECORD.
MANY CASTS OF sUNsTROKE YEsrERDAY-THE
TEMPERATURE IN OIHER PLACES.


TEMPERATURE IN OTHER PLACES
Humidity and heat again combired yesterday to
make this city uncomfortable; to drive number of
the fortunate hnlboday people to the seaside and
PROSTATE many persona At 2 H. the humidity was
81 per cent, and the heat 760: Mt humidity had
decreased to 70 per and heat had increased to
$40; at 3 p the humidity was SO per cent and the
thermometer indicated s50. These Signal Ser
vice obser yations and according their seiregster
ing Instruments the maximum temperature S6o
Hudnuts highest was go. The hottest clues in the
United States st. Lous, Cairo and Little Rock
where the 3 p. m record was 9o'. At nashville
Memphis AID vck>burg it s.94o; at Boston only
1872; at Atlanta 7S' and at Jacksonvlel 76'. The
last two records remarkably low tor that quarter
OF the country at this time Of the year but conc
VITA its heavy rains cooled the atmo- phere. At
Michigan the highest temperature TAP. San
francisco and Dtadwood were tho coolest places
heard from heir morning records being respectively
$50 and 46' The indications Tor to-day in this city
are warmer, lair weather, With southerly winds"
sonth wind blew fifteen miles hour yesterday
afternoon.
The beat drove Michael Kirby out OF his rooms on
the eeoond floor OF the tenement-house No I,775
Second-ave early yesterday, and be went to sleep
broad cornlce just outside his windows anu over
butcher shop. Soon alter 3 D. III. he rolled Oh the
cornlce and was falling h.adlong to the sidewalk
when he Was caught by meat hook. Policemen VINO
attracted by his found him i'm paied On the
hook and rescued h IN with difficulty. He hurt
seriously and an ambulance carried him to the Har
lem Hospital.
The police gave asa istabcc TO several persons who
were proslrated by the heat. Among the sufferers
was an unknown y haired man OF middle age,
dressed in tweed suit who was found lnsensible
ana apparently dying at Fiist-sve. aud Ninety
seeonost lie was sent to the Presb, terIn Hospital.
Rudolph Cold, age tuIrty. was overcome while at
work In the emma Bakery q broaawoy and
Tentbst. An unknown about thirty years OF
age, was Frustrated AZ Eignfhave. and Une-hundred
andeieventnst. aud taken to the Ninety nIbth Street
uos,tal Leonari For til, age thirty-eisht, OF No.
SO Vest Thirty -seyenih-st, was overcome AT Unver
sity place and removed to ST. Vincents Hospital.
JACOB Chapalo. aga tDirty-iour. wa, conveyed to
CbsmDess Street Hospital IRON Broadway. An I'M
known aboni thirty yeats Old was onnd iise Isl
bic in Suiiiya aud taken 10 ST. Vincent's hospital
number. oil horses oied IRON tue eh-cts OF the
heat In the streets, and uensnas Tor the speedy
novel OF their BIO les were sent 10 the talit3ry
bureau. Ono uptown resident wrote: There Is
tue body oil horse in front NV house and ii Is get
ting perrepubly bigger every hour better send tor
IL while q cart will mold it
There we're number Of cases sunstrokc in Brooklyn
YESTERDAY. but ony TWO ended fatally George clover.
thTtyslx years, OF No. I'D Hopklnsst employed IN
schuItzs bakery AT Hey wnrdsi aa iiaITisonave was
surgeon got there John Mccormick. LABOR 1, age
sixty, and living at Nc. IL Westst. hew-lDrk Was Ell
heated aud died instantly His body taheD tue
Morgue john Wash. twenty two, Carpenter work
t Vs mn Of No. Ioo George cent? aye
thirty-seycn aud John Heitnann age irytbree, also
succumDod Ia tue extreme heat and taken
hospital or 10 tnclr hones, as their condition war
ranlcd.
To-day brings to close u month o: July which lie
remarkable tar weather Is concerne1. Its ram
record IN New oik !, excessive-th- largest since
1872 a humidity above the average, c"DOined with
Mig TEN ,erAtre. has caused the atno 'pnere to re-
semb- that oi the tropics. and succession OF bril-
liant eleclre storms has broken the highest previous
record al The signal Service The average July ram
fall Tor the lxst sixteen years 4.37 incbos Up 10
,st nirht u had this Wodh rained q. Il inches. In
1872 81. 40 iaches tel buttone OF those unexpected
big thunder storms lor when no prov sion ia made
h. st,pu &art toQ may mOufl'h
total M that before tDmorros dasns.
A great deal has oevn rea'i a p"rhap. more has
be'I written about the unusual putn'any. lbs
quality certainly has received more attention than
ever before; ami In view oil that II l. interesting To
note in the last tive the mean Jul, humid
Is. While not gate equal to that oil the present
month, has been by msans low. Last year II was
40 per cert: IN july, 1890, ~ ler cent; IN July.
lsS1 "a per cent; IN July, 1858 20 per cent an III
JuIy lssZ, 40 Der cent. New-lorks proximity 10
the ocean has doubt a good deal TO do with this
There have been many thun or storms. The nrst
90 Cured bet cen be 9TH and 7th aud IT severe.
The next tue lon and wac moderate. On the
l7th there Was n n4ayN Storm and a sreond set Ia be-
fore the dan over, and continued ioto the oth
n was exceedingly heavy. between the Z3d snd
9th there was her heavy elec al vistaon on
:hs 26to ana 27Ia one ~n.ch va, exceedingly
heavy, aud on FRIDAY night two hours storm winch
the Signal Service class lee as beavy.
People W osc reco lee range over half q cen
tury rack their san ~ find parallel TO
tins. july lsss. may vol be remembered as The
mouth OF thunder storms. Last week the sinlal
according to tue returns from tue Central Park
Oo.er, aiory, rs inch, and the highest tempera
turt 800 oce urred Friday. But The ulnfai here
il nsre triile when compared with that experienced
In the South Atlantic Siaee These la We been waited
by u cyclone which came up from the West Indies
few days ago. swept me country IN n noftbessirry
direction then turned ea-ierly. ana IA now centred
near Jacksonville. Fla, and moving northeastward.
In the twenty tour hours ending n, n. w Yesterday
n flooded Augusta with 3.s6 inches OF ram at At
lanta Ca. $50 inches tell at Jacksonville. Fla,
SO inctes snd at Charleston, s. C., l.3O ihches.
Storm -ignaIs siil displayed ut Jacksonville and
Charleslon The signal soryloe people do not think
that the cyclone will come lar north us Newf York.
its energy II ALREADY diminishing.